The Message and papers were read, and ordered to lie for consideration.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee appointed to reduce the several votes on the convention made on behalf of the United States with the Republic of France, into the form of a ratification, together with the motion made yesterday thereon, to wit: to amend the proviso, by inserting after the word "third," the words "and nineteenth." And, on the question, to agree to the insertion of the words, it was determined in the negative—yeas 6, nays 22, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bingham, Hillhouse, Read, Ross, Tracy, and Wells.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Armstrong, Baldwin, Bloodworth, Brown, Chipman, Cocke, Dayton, T. Foster, D. Foster, Franklin, Greene, Howard, Langdon, Latimer, Livermore, S. T. Mason, J. Mason, Morris, Nicholas, Paine, and Schureman.
Ordered, That the further consideration of the convention, and the report of the committee thereon, be postponed until Friday next.
Friday, January 23.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the report of the committee appointed to reduce the several votes on the convention made on behalf of the United States with the Republic of France, into the form of a ratification, which report is as follows:
Resolved by the Senate of the United States, (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein,) That they do consent to and advise the ratification of the convention between the French Republic and the United States of America, made at Paris the eighth day of Vendemaire, of the ninth year of the French Republic, the thirtieth day of September, anno Domini eighteen hundred: Provided, The second and third articles be expunged, and that the following articles be added or inserted:
1st. It is understood that nothing in this convention shall be so construed as to operate contrary to any former and existing treaties between either of the parties and any other State or Sovereign.